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Note that to do useful things with the internal SE you need a developer phone with unlocked SE (or you need to know the key)

• Using the secure element on an Android device (1/3)
• Using the secure element on an Android device (2/3)
• Using the secure element on an Android device (3/3)

/etc/nfcee_access.xml

Installing

• https://code.google.com/p/seek-for-android/wiki/BuildingTheSystem

To generate the certificate line to be added to /etc/nfcee_access.xml:

keytool -exportcert -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias alias_name -storepass password|xxd -p|tr -d '\n'

To replace /etc/nfcee_access.xml

adb pull /etc/nfcee_access.xml nfcee_access.xml.orig
adb push nfcee_access.xml /sdcard/
adb shell su -c "mount -o remount,rw /system"
adb shell su -c "cat /sdcard/nfcee_access.xml > /etc/nfcee_access.xml"
sleep 1
adb shell su -c "mount -o remount,ro /system"
adb reboot

You need to reboot because the file is parsed at boot time.
in logcat:

I/NfceeAccess(): read X signature(s) for NFCEE access

Debugging

Dump certificates from nfcee_access.xml, here the second one (cf signer[2]):

adb shell cat /etc/nfcee_access.xml | sed 's/android://' | \
   xmlstarlet select -T -o -t -v //signer[2]/@signature | xxd -r -ps | \
   openssl x509 -inform DER -text -noout

Compare it with app certificate:

7z e MySecureElementApp.apk META-INF/CERT.RSA -so 2>/dev/null | \
   openssl pkcs7 -inform DER -print_certs -text -noout

Misc

• NfcExecutionEnvironment.java
• software card emulation